WHY!

-We will create projections. And all our projections are going to be
shattered sooner or later because reality has no obligation to fulfill
our projections. --- The moment we understand that "I am ignorant,"
the first glimpse of knowing has happened. The moment we say,
"I am not," for the first time, real existence has penetrated us.
The first time we say, "I don't possess anything," the whole world
is ours. The first time we say, "I am not separate, I am one with
the whole," we become the whole. The dewdrop does not really
disappear; it becomes the ocean. By knowing one's emptiness, one's
egolessness, one loses nothing, one gains all. --- This is attaining
to reality: when we don't ask why, when we drop the longing, the
neurotic longing for meaning. That neurotic longing is driving us to
such despair at times that life has become almost impossible; it is
a miracle how we go on living.
Yes, Freud may be right as far as we are
concerned: "Human life is more a matter of endurance than of
enjoyment." He himself never enjoyed life; he endured. - But that is
ugly: to endure, to endure such benediction in which we can
disappear, in which we need not remain separate, in which we can
become part of the dance and the song ... This is reality: dropping
the question why, dropping philosophical attitudes towards life,
dropping the longing for meaning, then we attain to reality. --- +
WHY? - "Why?" is a wrong question to ask. Things simply are. There is
no why to them. The question why, once accepted, will lead you farther
and farther into philosophy, and philosophy is a wasteland. You will
not find any oasis there, it is desert. Ask the question "Why?" and
you have started moving in a wrong direction; you will never come
home. - Existence is, there is no why to it. That's what we mean when
we say it is a mystery, because there is no why to it. In fact it
should not be there and it is. There seems to be no need for it to be
there, no reason for it to be there, and it is there. "Why?" is a
mind question. - And now you can be in a very great puzzle, because
the mind is asking a question about itself: "Why is the mind?"
The question comes from the mind, and the mind is capable of turning
each answer into a new question. You will be moving in a vicious
circle. To ask the question "Why?" is to fall into the trap of the
mind. You will have to see to it. The question "Why?" has to be
dropped; that's the meaning of trust.


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WHY? - Philosophers are the most
miserable men. They go on asking,
"Why this? Why that?" Their constant
"Why?" is an inner disease. Look
at it in this way: only when something
goes wrong do you ask why.
When everything is okay, you never ask
why. You ask why there is
misery; you never ask why there is
bliss. You ask why there is death;
you never ask why there is love. When
there is love, there is no
question about it. You accept it
totally. When there is hate, the
question arises. When you are in bliss,
no questioning, no inquiry, no
philosophy arises out of it. When you
are in anguish, suffering, you
ask, "Why this suffering? Why I am suffering? Why is the whole world
suffering?" Only when something goes wrong does the question arise.
When everything is okay, there is no questioning. You accept
existence in its totality. - So remember this: if you have a "Why?"
you need meditation, because without meditation the "Why?" will not
disappear. - And the answer comes only to those who have stopped
questioning. The answer can only be understood by those who are not in
the mood to question. A questioning mind is not in the mood to hear.
It goes on questioning. Questions are created in the mind just like
leaves grow on a tree. If your mind is ill, questions will come out of
it. Only if your mind has disappeared, and inner wholeness and health
has been gained, will questions stop. - And when there is no question,
you have got the ultimate answer. That ultimate answer is not in
words. It is existential. You live it; you become it. ---